On January 15 (not Jan. 8) at 12:30 pm, I’ll be holding a 1.5 hour photography workshop in the Martlet office (SUB B011) focusing on group photography, environmental portraits for news stories, and spot news. I’ll cover how to motivate reluctant subjects, make the most of what you have, and…

Because I’m a coddled university-aged elitist living in a craft beer mecca, I’ve never tasted Bud Light, but people tell me it’s watery, and in the wake of a 4.8 magnitude earthquake that happened maybe two hours ago, I’ve decided to start stockpiling it. Standard earthquake preparedness guidelines suggest that…

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert premiered on CBS this week. So far, I love it — along with Colbert’s boundless energy and optimism, which were often (understandably) lost amidst his conservative blowhard persona from The Colbert Report. But rather than consider the host or his performance or the show’s…

When I learned that David Carr died, I was sitting in a red booth eating chocolate cream pie. It was around 10:30 p.m., after my co-workers and I finished watching Interstellar in IMAX — the closest I've ever had to a spiritual experience. We were talking about some scene, and…

Or why everybody should just calm down over a warm cup of soup — This year, I was nominated for a John H. McDonald (JHM) award for a story I wrote in August about the UVic Students’ Society re-visiting a ban on military recruiters at a campus career fair. I remember the writing process as exciting, but difficult. The interviews were long, the research…